SJ Forss

Sally began her life growing up on a dairy farmstead with eight siblings and lived in a small farmhouse along a peaceful country road near Pound, Wisconsin. Four years after graduating from high school, she received her BA in Education, soon married and began her teaching career. Teachers were needed in a small village school in Fort Yukon, Alaska, and this decision to move was the beginning of Sally and her family’s 35+ years of Alaskan wilderness adventures. Sally writes her Alaskan Wilderness Series in hopes that many readers of all ages will enjoy reliving their family’s adventures!

Washing Clothes in a Fishing Basket

      Every parent with young children understands the need of pre-rinsing clothes soiled with messy food spills, ground in mud from sand boxes, and the dreaded dirtied cloth diapers.       I encountered all the above regularly while living on our remote homestead with five young children.   My greatest challenge while living without modern plumbing  or electricity

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Packing and shipping supplies before returning to McGrath.

Shopping for Wilderness Living

Enjoy discovering a parent’s secret survival tactics while living off the grid and raising five children under the age of five years old. Living in the very remote interior of the vast Alaskan wilderness requires much determination, self motivation, and strict discipline to survive the long days of pressing and often overwhelming demands.  If you’re

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